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That is a long time! What about going to a different doctor? I want you to take care of yourself because you are ballin’!
The parents are considering me going to their doctor instead, but nothing ever happens? She doesn't take new patients right now, so it'd be up to them to ask for an addition, and they keep... not. In any case I'll have to buckle down and stomach my hatred before the year ends, because that's when my insurance runs out. Bleh.
How did you know exactly which questions I wanted to answer? It's amazing.
1. What house will you be in?
Ravenclaw, unless Slytherclaw becomes a recognized option.
3. What kind of animal would you bring to school?
I would have brought my Charliecat. And he would have gotten all the way through Hogwarts with me, given real-world timelines, which is a cheering thought.
5. What do you think you'll be doing right now?
What a weird question. I have no way of knowing, because my life would have been completely different starting at age eleven at the latest, so there's really no way to predict such a lengthy trajectory. At a guess, reading. That's pretty much a constant.
7. Do you think you'll be part of the quidditch team?
Noooo. I wouldn't even try out. I'd probably hate flying in general, and sports are Not My Thing.
9. Will you go home during holidays?
That depends on where I'd live. We're assuming for the sake of the meme that I live in Britain or Ireland, because that's the population that goes to Hogwarts, but where? Would it be difficult for my parents to come to London and get me, or would I take another train, or what? I would probably want to, and honestly, Britain isn't that big, something could probably be worked out unless I'd have to cross the sea. It's worth thinking about the difficulty, though.
11. What will you pack for school?
My clothes. My laptop on the off-chance someone can figure out how to make it work. (It's so unfair that the Wizarding Wireless Network does not refer to magical wi-fi.) My Charliecat, since this takes place when I am eleven. Many books.
12. How about when going home for holidays, what will you bring home?
A few books, sufficient clothes, Charliecat, laptop. Wait, how does laundry work at Hogwarts? Do the house elves do it? I wouldn't like that at all, I didn't like being at camp and sending my laundry out, and they gave me a ticket to reclaim it! Beings just sneaking my clothes out of my room and washing them and returning them would freak me out so severely, even aside from the unpaid labor issue. Gah.
13. Would you consider studying in another wizarding school?
Oh, definitely! I mean, I'm American anyway, I'd go to whatever school was nearest me (would that be Salem? America is very large, there has to be a better division of education than one school per coast), but if I were European I would beg to go to Beauxbatons.
15. Are you going to be a pure-blood or half-blood or muggle-born?
I don't think I control this, actually. I guess half-blood? Hard to imagine either of my parents as magical, but I don't think I'd be Muggle-born, somehow.
16. Will you be related to any wizarding family?
Who even knows. All the pureblood families are related anyway, but I wouldn't be pureblood, so the chances decrease. Who knows.
17. Will you be a student who gets into trouble a lot?
I hope not! I'd probably be breaking rules I had no idea about for the first term or so, but hopefully after that I'd be better.
18. Do you think you'll get a lot of detention? For what reason/s?
See above. I really hope not, because I don't like being in trouble or doing things that would get me in trouble. Unless Hogwarts has a branch of SDS, in which case yeah, probably.
20. Will you be supportive of your house's quidditch team?
Hahahahahahahaha
Sports et moi, ça fait deux. I would not join the team, I would not go to games, I would get very grumpy if we won and the common room became boisterous. There's a chance I'd become interested in my senior year and make someone explain all the rules to me, as with my late onset of interest in hockey, but Hogwarts is so sports culture that I'd probably be inculcated in a cocoon of resentment by the end of the first year.
22. Do you think you'll get a lot of letters from home? How frequent do you think you'll get them?
Oh, hm. At school I called my parents pretty regularly, and since that's not an option because wizards are backwards hicks I guess I'd have to write instead. Honestly, though, there's only so much handwriting I can take before my hands go numb, and essays that are multiple feet long written with archaic implements are going to use up the bulk of that allowance. So probably I would not write very often, and therefore would receive few letters.
23. Will you subscribe to the daily prophet or the quibbler or other wizarding world media?
As the child of the editor of the local alternative weekly I would be honor-bound to love the Quibbler. Other students would probably lend me the Daily Prophet if I really wanted to read it, and I'd probably send derisive letters home to Da about their obvious biases and the stories that weren't being told.
24. Which part of the castle will be your favorite?
I have no idea. I keep trying to think and I just have no idea. The library, probably. Or my room.
25. When sleeping in your dormitory, will your four-poster bed's curtains be drawn or closed?
Closed. They'd also be closed when I wasn't sleeping. I would just sit there a lot, reading, with the curtains closed. I'd probably find a way to set up a proximity charm as well, so I wouldn't be surprised doing untoward things.
26. If the team your house played against wins, do you think you'll be bitter towards the other team after the game?
I don't think I would care at all.
27. Do you think you'll be a fan of wizard music?
I mean, I guess? How the heck do these people find out about music, do they all just listen to the radio and trade wax discs to play on their pocket gramophones? But if there was interesting music I wouldn't stop myself from liking it.
28. Will you be curious enough to try and explore the whole castle, even if you know you can get in trouble for visiting some parts of it?
Not even a little. Being out of bounds terrifies me even in circumstances where steps don't disappear and there aren't vanishing cabinets. I would definitely not explore at all.
29. How frequent will your visits to the library be?
Daily. Multiple times daily.
30. If someone was to form an organization similar to dumbledore's army, will you join?
Uhhhh I mean I'd hope I wouldn't have to? Like, I'd hope the teachers would at least be teaching what they had to and there wouldn't be a dark wizard on the horizon? But yeah, I guess probably, although I would be terrified every second.
31. If you were to get detention, what task would you prefer? Would you want to scrub cauldrons or clean trophies or sort through unlabeled books or…?
I don't want to think about this!
32. On your o.w.l.s, what subject/s will you get an O in? Which ones do you think you’ll get a T on?
I don't know.
33. How about in your n.e.w.t.s?
I don't know.
34. If you were a pure-blood, would you take interest in reading muggle literature?
Probably not. I mean, if I were a pureblood I'd probably have been trained to believe that Muggles were inferior, or at best laughable, and I probably wouldn't see any merit in reading what such nonentities had to say.
I'm not saying I'd be right, but those would probably be the circumstances.
35. At what time do you think you'll go to bed on weekdays?
That would depend on when my earliest classes started. I'd try to get a decent amount of sleep every night, because sleep-deprived magic is dangerous magic.
36. Would you prefer firewhiskey over butterbeer?
I'm not clear on whether butterbeer is actually alcoholic, but I suspect not? If it is, I wouldn't drink either one.
38. Will you collect chocolate frog cards?
Probably, because I'm constitutionally incapable of throwing things away.
39. Will you keep track of which flavor of beans you already tried?
No? I might make a chart for myself so I could remember which color corresponded to which flavor, which I guess might be the same thing.
40. What quidditch team (excluding hogwarts houses) will you support?
None. I have thoroughly enumerated my issues with quidditch and the wizarding world's sports culture.
41. What classes will you take for n.e.w.t.s?
I don't know.
42. What will your boggart be?
A shark. The Joker. An empty room.
43. Will you stay in the hog’s head or the three broomsticks?
I don't know what this means. Will I "stay" there. I would stay in Hogwarts, that is the premise of this meme.
44. If you are of age, will you try to enter the triwizard tournament if they ever host one again?
NO. FUCKING NO. WHY WOULD YOU. HOLY SHIT.
45. What do you think happens during graduation?
I have no idea, I've never thought about it.
46. Will you see the thestrals carrying the carriages?
No.
47. If you were invited to join the slug club, will you accept the invitation?
I wouldn't be.
48. Will you consider becoming a professor in hogwarts after school?
Definitely! Especially if I were Muggle-born or otherwise not raised entirely in the wizarding world, because I would try to slip information about the rest of humanity into my lessons so my students wouldn't be such casually bigoted dicks. Plus, really, it's not like Hogwarts trains me to be anything but a resident of Hogwarts, might as well go with that.
49. What would your patronus be?
A Pallas cat. Or Sakura Oogami, if they don't have to be non-human. I am completely serious.
50. What memory will you think of when making a patronus?
Probably meeting Jason at the Greyhound station. That, or seeing Pip at the bookstore after three years.
51. What year are you suppose to be in right now?
I would be in my fifteenth year at Hogwarts. Let's hope that's not actually the case.
Suck-it the Patron Saint of Fuck You
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The Prayer of the Seeking
O Saint Suck-It
I inspect the signs here and now, looking for the hidden half truths buried in unending nooks and crevices, enthusiastically hunting for knowledge to spread and share with those around me. I ask that you, heart alight with excitement and learning, watch over us as we wade through books and notes, experimenting to discover something previously unknown to us.
I turn the page, when the words seem dense and my mind seems full to bursting, pressing on even when it overwhelms, charting ships and stars in the hurricane of thought, raising a call to the powers that may or may not be to keep up the search for whatever needs finding.
May I always have a thirst to know more, and may we never give up the curious drive that pushes us towards the things we love and need. This is a prayer to and for the people of our community to hold fast to what they're interested in and never let loose no matter what others say.
In the name of those who've sunk their teeth in so we may too, Amen.
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I thought I'd posted this earlier but I clearly didn't and I'm very sorry for the delay! This was commissioned by Wesley for and of his sister Laura. As always, Pip did the sketch, I did the colors and prayer. Commissions are still open, so please help out if you can!
The Prayer of the Angry (Mitch version of Saint Suck-it)
The Prayer of the Shy (Jo version of Saint Suck-it)
The Prayer of the Heartsick (my version of Saint Suck-it)
The Prayer of the Sleepless (Zoe version of Saint Suck-it)
The Prayer of the Headstrong (Pippin version of Saint Suck-it)
Okay what I'm going to do is write up a post of recommendations because I have a lot and also surely the rest of the world (by which I mean my, like, 3 friends who follow me) would benefit from this list as well. But the post will be addressed to you, because you're super.
Thank you!! I appreciate it, and I will definitely look into those books. :)
